I was shocked by this recent picture of Jeff Tweedy - he looks terrible! He looked quite crappy last time I saw the band on TV, too.
What’s up?
I dunno, I think he looks fine. His head and mouth are kind of at a weird angle, emphasizing a line in his cheek, and I don’t know if the facial hair is the best look for him, but I’d hardly say he looks like death warmed over.
He:
(a) turns 40 next month;
(b) looks like he might’ve had some reasonably bad acne in his younger days;
© has a sad beard in that picture;
(d) has reportedly had problems with addiction to prescription medication within the last few years; and
(e) suffers from clinical depression.
I’d say anyone about whom all of the above were true would probably be fairly happy looking as good as Tweedy does (though I agree that he doesn’t look too flash in that shot).
That’s not the best picture of him, but that pretty much looks like Tweedy would at his age. (Face it, he’s never been a fashion model and has always looked quite thin.) To top off buns3000’s list, apparently the prescription meds were for chronic migraines*, and as a migraine sufferer myself, I can empathize with the kind of pain and general unhappiness that inflicts on a person. I tend to look like shit even after a migraine.
- In the documentary about the band around the time of the release of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, called I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, there’s a scene where Tweedy is fighting a migraine’s effects, runs to the bathroom, and vomits into a toilet. Instead of going “ewww!” my thought was “damn, what a nasty one, poor guy,” out of knowing what it’s like.